Analysis of The World Rose
The world sneezed,
the demon danced
—the music stopped in time
The world coughed,
the demon choked
—millions now entwined
The world hid,
the demon searched
—new victims running low
The world rose,
the demon dead
—nowhere left to go
(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)
| Scheme | XXX XXX XXA XXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011 0101 010101 011 0101 10101 011 0101 110101 011 0101 1111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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